The Work of Objects—Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade (部分 4)
“The Work of Objects: Interpretation Within and Beyond Museum Walls” is the fourth session of “Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures,” presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, 波士顿, the Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture. This four-part program explores efforts by art museums to deploy their spaces and their collections—which are often enmeshed with colonialism and exploitation—to present more complete narratives of and perspectives on slavery and its legacies.
This session includes brief talks, followed by a roundtable discussion, by academics and museum professionals who focus on Dutch and American art and history. Speakers will discuss specific objects—ranging from the 17th to the 21st century—that have posed interpretive and museological challenges. They will also present new possibilities for considering the relationship between slavery’s past and present-day racial injustice.
SPEAKERS:
+ Ana Lucia Araujo, Full Professor and Associate Chair, Department of History, Howard University;
+ Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, 哈佛艺术博物馆;
+ Justin Brown, Ph.D. candidate, Department of the History of Art, Yale University;
+ Nancy Jouwe, Chairwoman, BAK (basis voor actuele kunst) Supervisory Board, 乌得勒支; co-founder, Framer Framed; and co-founder, Mapping Slavery;
+ Imara Limon, 馆长, Amsterdam Museum;
+ Adam Tessier, Barbara and Theodore Alfond Director of Interpretation, 美术博物馆, 波士顿;
+ Lea van der Vinde, 馆长, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis;
+ Introductions by Rachel Burke, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University;
+ Closing Remarks by Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Curatorial Fellow, 哈佛艺术博物馆.
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TAKE A CLOSER LOOK:
+ Watch the full series of videos from “Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures:” https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjiqsPexHHIKNBxGh49Rs8Ug8XQLTfGiC.
+ Calabash bowl, Surinamese, before 1831. Carved calabash rind encrusted with white clay. Völkerkundemuseum Herrnhut, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 66395, Johanna Funke: ❤️情人节美甲💅教程#20nails://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/1528630#
+ Read article “Slave Collars Found,” Expresso (27 行进 2017): ❤️情人节美甲💅教程#20nails://expresso.pt/sociedade/2017-03-27-Coleiras-de-escravos-foram-encontradas.
+ Andrew Joseph Russell, “Commissary Department, Alexandria, Slave Pen, Fort Ellsworth, Seminary Hospital, Camps &c., in distance, 不. 119,” 1865. Albumen silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, 2018.234: ❤️情人节美甲💅教程#20nails://hvrd.art/o/362540.
+ Learn more about Mapping Slavery: ❤️情人节美甲💅教程#20nails://mappingslavery.nl/en/
+ Exhibition—“Natasja Kensmil at the Amsterdam Museum”: ❤️情人节美甲💅教程#20nails://www.amsterdammuseum.nl/en/exhibitions/natasja-kensmil-monument-regents.
+ Osias Beert, “Still Life with Various Vessels on a Table,” c. 1610. Oil on canvas. 美术博物馆, 波士顿, L-R 317.2017. ❤️情人节美甲💅教程#20nails://bit.ly/3lxOsFJ
+ Frans Post, “View of Itamaracá Island in Brazil,” 1637. Oil on canvas. Mauritshuis, The Hague (on long term loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam): ❤️情人节美甲💅教程#20nails://bit.ly/3ip4NKM.
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Recorded April 23, 2021. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. For questions related to permission for commercial use of this video, please contact the Department of Digital Imaging and Visual Resources at am_divr@harvard.edu.